Is it possible to change the color of the blinking "type here" thingy ?

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Hi, you click with you mouse in a text area (like the one I used to type this message) there is a little blinking thingy that says where the text will be typed. Is there a way to change the color of this thingy with CSS ?

I agree. I was just thinking about coloured scroll bars when I got to your post! I think some basic input/interface widgets need to remain at their basic element and text input boxes and scroll bars are examples of these.

Click Enter...then at the drop-down menu, select Join...you will see what I am talking about. It took me about 20 minutes to sort through the code enough to get to the source for that page. She has the "no right click" script and its in frames, PLUS it's one of those weird hosting companies where they make it very difficult to get to the real URL.

Anywa...check it out and let me know what you think. It is intriguing, but practical? I don't know about that one.

btw... creole, tt transparency was actually an accidental mistake.
if you see the css style...
input, textarea { background: 66699cc;

there are 7 numbers there. it was probably meant to be 6699cc, but when you make an error there it ignores the value, and it becomes { background: ; }, which is a transparent effect... in ie only, as far as i know.